Lessons learned. Organizing knowledge in the Friesian dairy cluster, 1885-1904

This paper examines the early years of the Friesian Dairy School and is a case study of how knowledge institutes were integrated into a regional economic system. The dairy school was the result of cooperation between people and organisations from the economic and political sectors, which inspired the emergence of a cluster of economic dairy activities. It had a difficult start because it was not clear whether higher education was a matter of private or public interest. In the discussions about the funding and direction of the school, we can observe how patterns of cooperation between the econo... Mehr ...